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EDUCATION REPORT - Duke 1 iPod Experiment
By Nancy Steinbach


Broadcast: Thursday, August 05, 2004


This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report.


Duke University in Durham, North Carolina recently announced a campaign 2 to increase creative uses of technology in education. The university will provide each of its one-thousand-six-hundred first-year students with a digital 3 device 4 called an Apple iPod.


 
iPod
Apple iPods are small devices 5 that copy, save and play music and written material. Duke University officials say the iPods will contain information about the school that its new students need to know. The university is also establishing a special Duke Web 6 site so the students can copy to their iPods information provided 7 by their professors.


University officials say the experiment is part of a cooperation program between Duke and the Apple Computer company. Each iPod sells for about three-hundred dollars in stores. The experiment will cost Duke about five-hundred-thousand dollars. That includes the costs of hiring a computer specialist 8, paying for a research study and buying the digital devices for the students. The students will be able to keep their iPods free of charge. But they must pay for replacements 9 if the devices are lost or broken.


Duke says it is providing only its first-year students with the devices as a way to control the experiment and make it easy to examine the results. Researchers will do the study after the students have used the iPods for one year.


The university wants to know if the iPods help people take part in creative educational experiences. Officials say that success will be measured by the number of ways that Duke students and professors use iPod recordings 10 for educational purposes.


Duke officials say they expect the iPod experiment to get professors and students thinking creatively about how to use the devices. They expect students will develop new ways to use the iPod. For example, one official said the student newspaper could create a weekly editorial 11 that students could listen to by using the devices.


University officials also expect Duke professors to suggest their own ideas about new ways to use the devices. Officials say professors could use the iPods to add music or foreign languages to their classes. One Duke professor is already planning to have students use the iPods to record lectures, take notes, and record music and other information from experts.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. This is Steve Ember.



n.公爵
  • His grandfather was a royal duke.他的祖父是王室公爵。
  • The duke was the king's most trusted adviser.公爵是国王最信赖的顾问。
n.运动;竞选活动;战役;vi.参加运动;进行竞选;作战
  • The election campaign heated up in that state.该州竞选运动激烈起来了。
  • The campaign had begun during his absence.在他不在期间运动已经开始了。
n.数字,数字式;adj.数位的,数字的
  • There's a digital watch on the table.桌子上有一块数字式手表。
  • The signal will be converted into digital code.信号会被转变为数字代码。
n.器械,装置;计划,策略,诡计
  • The device will be in production by the end of the year.该装置将于年底投入生产。
  • The device will save much time and effort for us.这种装置会使我们节省大量时间和气力。
n.设备;装置( device的名词复数 );花招;(为实现某种目的的)计划;手段
  • electrical labour-saving devices around the home 节省劳力的各种家用电器
  • modern labour-saving devices such as washing machines and dishwashers 诸如洗衣机和洗碗机之类的现代化省力设备
n.网,蛛丝,蹼,织物,圈套,卷筒纸;vi.生蹼,形成网;vt.织蜘蛛网于,使落入圈套
  • The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
  • You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网?
conj.假如,若是;adj.预备好的,由...供给的
  • Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.如果天气良好,我们的假日将过得非常愉快。
  • I will come provided that it's not raining tomorrow.如果明天不下雨,我就来。
n.(医学)专家,专科医生;专家;专业人员
  • She is a specialist in English.她是一位英语专家。
  • The peasants looked up to him as a specialist.农民们尊他为专家。
n.代替( replacement的名词复数 );替换的人[物];替代品;归还
  • They infiltrated behind the lines so as to annoy the emery replacements. 他们渗透敌后以便骚扰敌军的调度。 来自辞典例句
  • For oil replacements, cheap suddenly looks less of a problem. 对于石油的替代品来说,价格变得无足轻重了。 来自互联网
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
adj.编者的,社论的;n.(报刊的)社论,重要评论
  • For a full hour they argued over the wording of the editorial.他们为社论的措辞争论了一个小时。
  • We now bring you the full text of the Renmin Ribao editorial.现在全文广播《人民日报》社论。
学英语单词
a Homer
Abel, John Jacob
abidings
acorn-shells
action founded in tort
aheap
alkylboric acid(s)
Allakh-Yun'
argular distance
blind leading the blind
bucrylate
bumblebees
bunkers on delivery
cable network on-board
capitate hairs
carbonisers
Carposinidae
chromium salt
clutch on-off
cobaltous acetate
coincidence spectroscopy
colsons
Croton laui
csaa
cucubano
cuneal
dark business
darkcore
dehuman
displace in
driving screw
emergency docking facilities
evaporation crystallizer
exchange premium
expending equilibrium
false add
Fieldsian
flasharc
fluocerites
fosmethilan
Fusobacterium plauti-vincenti
GIPME
grajahu (grajau)
grinds away at
gyratory sifter
half-yearly economic report
hot air circulating oven
if-else control structure
inboard nacelle
inertial period
insiduous
Katoka
limiting reactant
machine posting
Mahārājganj
mass media file
mccains
mean that
montmorillonites
motor vessel
neural functions
node-to-datum voltage
nuristan
on the threshold of life
opulencies
outline image
overjoyed
pana tinani i.
panush
Peucedanum praeruptorum
piston aircraft
plutonium(iii) oxychloride
polar coordinate manipulator
population geography
portrait lens
postanarchist
potential step method
railway protection forest
register of businesses
religious order
remote office work
robert time filter
route reconnaissance
rufloxacin
sativane
selene
self-binder
sell sth in bricks
semidirect leads
sink or swim
standing seam
stinking cheese
subtype indication
successional replacement
suction cock
superaltars
time-discrete
unavoidable hazards
von Mauser
Vrachasi
Waubay L.
willian